The media, to a great extent, present us with versions of reality. When analyzing a media text consider the following questions: How is this message constructed? How well does it represent reality?
Media contain beliefs & messages
What lifestyles, values, and points of view are represented in or omitted from this message? We need to decode media messages about such issues as the nature of the “good life”, the virtue of consumerism, the role of women, the acceptance of authority, and unquestioning patriotism.
Each person interprets messages differently
Each person(s) can interpret or negotiate a message differently based on age, culture, life experiences, values and beliefs. When analyzing a media text, consider: How might others understand this message differently? Think demographics!
The media have special interests (commercial, ideological, political)
When analyzing a media text, consider: Who created this and why? Who profits if the message is accepted? Who may be disadvantaged?
Each medium has its own conventions, language, style, form, techniques & aesthetics
Why do T.V. news programs start with music? What elements to all of your science textbooks have in common? Media use images, text and sound. When analyzing a media text, consider: What techniques are used and why? Developing media literacy skills enable us not only to decode and understand media texts, but also to enjoy the unique aesthetic form of each. Our enjoyment of media is enhanced by an awareness of how pleasing forms or effects are created.
Map of North Western Europe during First World War, Map adapted from D.F.Oliver and L.Brandon, Canvas of War, 2000, p.6
Residential Schools - DVD "We Were Children"
Warning: this film contains disturbing content and is recommended for audiences 16 years of age and older. Parental discretion, and/or watching this film within a group setting, is strongly advised. If you need counselling support, please contact Health Canada.
Grade 10
MEDIA UNIT - KEY CONCEPTS OF MEDIAKey Concepts of Media Literacy
PRINT ADS
CREATIVE PRINT ADS - ANALYIShttp://www.viralnova.com/creative-print-ads/
Ads that make you think
http://sfglobe.com/?id=898
VIDEO ADS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUA8PvLsZgU
"True Colours" commercial
MEDIA UNIT
Dove Onslaught - Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6JvK0W60I
Dove Onslaught - Anti-Propaganda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI7pQFyjso-SHAKESPEARE: ROMEO AND JULIET
Link to download script for editing - The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/
-THREE DAY ROAD by Joseph Boyden
Background:
World War 1 - Canadian War Museumhttp://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/vimy/index_e.shtml
Residential Schools - DVD "We Were Children"
Warning: this film contains disturbing content and is recommended for audiences 16 years of age and older. Parental discretion, and/or watching this film within a group setting, is strongly advised. If you need counselling support, please contact Health Canada.
Native Mythology - Mythic Voices - "Windigo"
Study Questions and Student Summaries
USEFUL RESEARCH WEBSITES
How to Create an Information Pamphlet
http://www.slideshare.net/quillinn/how-to-create-the-ideal-information-pamphlet?utm_source=slideshow02&utm_medium=ssemail&utm_campaign=share_slideshowHow to Create a graphic novel
http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/Glossary of Military Terms and Technology
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWglossary.htmAboriginal Religion/Spirituality
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/religion-of-aboriginal-people/First Nation Soldiers
http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/first-nations-e.aspxCanada's History of Residential Schools
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/a-history-of-residential-schools-in-canada-1.702280A Brief History of Cree Peoples
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/cree/Analysis of Windigo myth in Three Day Road
Living in the bush
http://www.pathoftheelders.com/videos?task=videodirectlink&id=124-"I HAVE A DREAM"
-RUBRICS
-USEFUL FILES
LORD OF THE FLIES:
"I HAVE A DREAM":
Martin Luther King:
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